As geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, it dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions. Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that drained suddenly–not just once but repeatedly–and reshaped the landscape of the Northwest. The narrative follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured through eastern Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific Ocean. This is also the story of geologists grappling with scientific controversy–“of how personalities, pride, and prejudice sometimes superseded scientific evidence.”
Author: David Alt
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Published: 06/15/2001
Pages: 199
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780878424153
Language: English
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